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Navy Secretary Richard Spencer is pushing a plan to fully or partially privatize the lodging facilities used for official travel and by some service members during permanent change of station, Military Times reported, quoting from an internal memo. One DOD source raised questions about timing – with the services scrambling to fix problems with privatized

Officials from Lendlease, IHG Army Hotels and Fort Drum on Thursday celebrated the grand opening of a new Candlewood Suites hotel on the post in New York’s North Country. The project, the second mid-sized hotel in the United States constructed using cross-laminated timber, includes 99 all-suite rooms equipped with full-sized kitchens and large work areas,

Naval Station Newport, R.I., is scheduled to host a ribbon-cutting Thursday for a $48 million Navy Gateway Inns & Suites (NGIS) transient lodging facility that will mark the Navy’s first newly constructed property. NGIS historically adapts existing buildings previously built for unaccompanied sailors, according to a press release. The hotel also represents the first NGIS

Officials in Davis County, Utah, have reached an agreement with Hill Air Force Base allowing local hotels to accommodate visitors when the installation’s on-base lodging is at full capacity. The memorandum of understanding, which provides guidance to Hill on handling visitors’ inquiries regarding participating hotels in Davis County, still needs final approval from base officials, reported the Standard-Examiner. “Hill Air Force Base enjoys the benefits of strong community partnership and support,” the base said in a written statement. “This lodging agreement benefits both Hill and the local community,” it said. Last year, base visitors spent 11,000 hotel room nights in Davis County out of a total of 17,000 room nights requested. The agreement is almost identical to one neighboring Weber County has in place with Hill. The pact is “a great service” to the base, Louenda Downs, a commissioner for Davis County, told the Examiner.

A local developer plans to lease the hotel and bachelor housing at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station, Maine, to the Navy to house sailors assigned to nearby Bath Iron Works. George Schott has agreed to purchase the 248-room hotel and 190 bachelor apartments for $6 million, Steve Levesque, executive director of the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority, told the Bangor Daily News. Scott previously purchased about 700 units of former housing at the air station, now renamed Brunswick Landing. The LRA initially hoped the former Navy hotel could continue to be operated as a hotel, but a feasibility study concluded the community could not support it. “The fact that [Schott] is going to use [the housing] for what it was initially designed for — to support sailors — is fine with us,” Levesque said.